{"id":40136,"date":"2017-06-13T09:24:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T15:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=40136"},"modified":"2017-06-13T09:27:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T15:27:47","slug":"petition-circulating-to-revert-recent-ole-miss-parking-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/petition-circulating-to-revert-recent-ole-miss-parking-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Petition Circulating to Revert Recent Ole Miss Parking Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Ole Miss<\/strong> just recently announced that all vehicles would need to pull into a spot with their license plate facing the road. If you pull through or back into a spot, you will receive an initial warning followed by citations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/ole-miss-parking-help-not-make-ole-miss-parking-any-worse\">petition<\/a>, created by Ole Miss student <strong>Hunter Story<\/strong>, has begun circulation on <strong>change.org<\/strong> requesting the university revert the new parking policy updates. Since its creation, 19 hours ago as of writing, the petition has reached over 1,500 signatures. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Like many current students Ole Miss parking is already frustrating enough,&#8221; write Story. &#8220;wether(sic) it be the lack of parking, ridiculous citations, or the over-priced parking pass without the guarantee of a spot, without being told how I can park my vehicle. For many students pulling forwards into a spot is not a feasible option.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">He goes on citing that large vehicles often have trouble fitting into parking spots as it is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;This new policy is an unnecessary added burden to an already burdensome process,&#8221; continues Story. &#8220;The potential for avoidable wrecks that would take place while trying to park forwards into a small spot for some students as well as the overall prospect of being told how to park is not a well thought out policy for the school to impose in the best interest of current and new students.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Whether the university will acknowledge this is another question, but it seems clear what a large chunk of the student population thinks of these changes.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ole Miss just recently announced that all vehicles would need to pull into a spot with their license<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":40140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[10546,10548,5,642,7067,4,1055,10547,3,753],"class_list":["post-40136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-change-org","tag-hunter-story","tag-mississippi","tag-ms","tag-ole-miss","tag-oxford","tag-parking","tag-petition","tag-the-local-voice","tag-tlv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/parking-petition.jpg?fit=600%2C350&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}